A New Empire
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Story-telling from the world of news and current affairs. 'For God, Tsar and Nation'. That's the motto of some of those fighting with the pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine. Tim Whewell's been to talk to them about their dreams of a new Orthodox autocratic state; Mary Harper, in Mogadishu, has been finding out why there's a love affair going on between Somalia and Turkey; South Koreans are big believers in plastic surgery but Steve Evans, in Seoul, says there are now negative headlines after a string of news reports about botched operations; Bangladesh is known as a prolific producer of clothes for the mass market but Caroline Eden's been discovering it also makes saris so fine they're highly coveted and hugely expensive. And after more than a quarter of a century Justin Marozzi has mixed feelings as he bids farewell to the Moroccan town regarded as being the hashish capital of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | You've downloaded BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:03.9 | colour, context and background |
| 0:06.0 | from the world of news and current affairs. |
| 0:08.6 | We make another edition of this program |
| 0:10.5 | for the BBC World Service, but this is the version broadcast on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:17.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, today a love story from the Horn of Africa. It explains why Somalis call their boys |
| 0:25.8 | Ederwan, their girls Istanbul. A question in soul where plastic surgery is big |
| 0:32.0 | business. Can happiness really be found with the cut of a |
| 0:35.1 | knife? |
| 0:36.5 | Magic fingers in Bangladesh, they're making saris so light it's as if they're woven from |
| 0:41.2 | air. |
| 0:42.2 | And feelings of regret and some relief as a correspondent bids |
| 0:45.9 | farewell to Morocco's Cannabis Capital. |
| 0:49.5 | But first a quote, probably the most dangerous situation of all the international hot spots at the |
| 0:54.8 | moment and one which possibly threatens the UK the most. That view on the conflict |
| 1:00.2 | between Ukraine and the Russia-backed separatists came this week from Richard Ottaway, |
| 1:05.0 | the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in a debate in the House of Commons. |
| 1:10.0 | And yesterday Ukraine's Defence Minister called for a doubling of his country's |
| 1:13.6 | defense budget next year to help the army fight the rebels in the East. |
| 1:18.0 | Tim Hewell's been talking to some of those who've been fighting on the separatist side. |
| 1:22.0 | When I was 20 at the beginning of the 1980s, those who've been fighting on the separatist side. |
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